Well if you remember the leaked Nikon roadmap, there it said for e.g. the D4:
Nikon D4 – new features:
effective pixels: 15.7 millions, FX sensor completely new design with maximized by increasing the sensitivity of more than 1 EV

OTOH, the roadmap was obviously fake with regards to lenses (there wasn’t a 17-65 f/3.2-4 VR in August). But maybe this makes it a little more likely that Nikon is considering this for D4 and D400.

rwbenjey

The first video has to be one of the worst videos I have ever seen….

guate6

The first video was bad, and the second…well, I wish I understood Japanese :\

ki6mf

The chip vendors announced 9 MB availability for the Japanese camera market in spring 2008. (EE Times (03/04/2008 ) It will be interesting to see how big they can make the sensors. Sony is buying the fab and/or design from either Kodak, Micron, Taiwan Semiconductor who all have been tweaking this technology since the scientific/milspec community started researching this in 1999. It appears to be a combination on engineering improvements rather than a major breakthrough in technology.